The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

those which begin with X. There are none in
the New York directory. Philadelphia, how
ever presents the names of Xaviers, Aander
and Xandry.
DURING the past winter Mrs. Mary Miller, of
Hillsborough, n. H. (where the season still lin
gers) fed daily eight gray squirrels which came
! to her door from the woods every morning and
! departed after having had their breakfast.
YOUNG CHICKENS, the Microscopical Society of
San Francisco fears, are filed with the seeds of
consumption and may communicate the disease
| to people VINO eat them, but this VIII nardly
bear the market for broers to any extent
AT Athens an archaic statue of Athene has
been found, composed of two plates of brass
| nailed together each plate showing the same
face 1t is supposed to have formed part of
piece of furniture, and shows traces of paint
JOLIET ILL, reports the case of a woman who
has been lying three months in a trance condi-
ton at her home in that city. 1t is stated that
the only signs of life she has exhibited have
| been when attempts wore made to put liquid
| food in her mouth. She would then close her
| jaws rigidly, and her eyelids would at the same
| time be tightly compressed.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY INDIANS, when they
find drove of deer in the woods, take lot of
wel-worn blankets and fasten them at short in
tervals on the bushes until a long line is thus
! decorated. Then they surround the deer, driv-
! ing them toward the bushes, and when the
| frightened animals smell the blankets they
| along the line, refusing 10 pass it, and are then
| shot down easily,
A LITTLE STORY comes from India which shows
| how deity modern science and modern appli-
ances lend themselves to carry on rites and Gus
| toms celebrated on the Ganges a thousand years
! ago. sepoy died long way from his home
| and country and his caste fellows duly cremated
| him, and, having done this they went to the
| telegraphlc office and wired as follows TO his
| parents: "Binda PerSad died last night. Bones
| by post"
| A NATIVE PERSIAN lectured before Sunday
school in New York lately, and published re-
| port states that the young ladies of the audi
| ence laughed when Mr. NeeSan told how the
Persian youth was allowed to take one kiss from
his future wife on the eve before their marriage,
| provided he could find her in dark room full
| of other ladies'. They were silent and sympa-
| thetic when he told how, although he
| gagged for three years, he never got one kiss in
all that time. -r--..--.-
| A GENTLEMAN interested in the commerce of
the great lakes says it is going rapidly to large
hulls Twenty years ago propeller that could
carry $1,000 bushels of grain or 1000 tons of coal
| was considered monster, but there are many
| now in the trade between Buffalo and Chicago
and Cleveland and Duluth that carry over 100,-
| 900 bushels of grain in a single cargo. The
| OnOko one of our great iron propellers takes
| 10000 bushels of oats in q single cargo. These
| large vessels are fast crowding the smaller pro-
| pellers and sailing vessels off of the lakes.
A New YORK. LADY, who wears beaver hat,
tells a correspondent how she keeps the nap so
smooth and shiny She says: First brush the
hat thoroughly so as to get all the ffbres
| Strengthened out in one direction. Then take
| silk handkerchief and pour into the middle of it
| about Tablespoonful of salad oil. Rub the
handkerchief in your hands until the oil is thor
| oughly distributed through it. Then go
over your hat time after time with the silk thus
| prepared. Lay the handkerchief aside, and use
| it every day upon the hat, without, however, re-
| plenishing the oil more than once week. The
| hat in this way viii be kept in perfect order,
| and even an ordinary wetting will not disturb
| it,"
THEODORE STANTON says that NJ. Hector Pes
| sard, the well-known Partisan journalist, has
| many revelations to make concerning great peo-
| pie of both the past and present in his spicy rec
objections now appearing in the Revue Bleue. 1t
| appears that in 1865 Gambetta paid visit to the
| Count of Paris, who was then, as now in exile.
| During the conversation the great grandson of
| Philippe EgGlte, he who voted for the death of
Louis Capet, exclaimed; 1T is a mistake to
| tinue any longer to defiantly throw in the face
| of the world the head eff Louis XVI" But that
| ought not to bother you very much in your
| house." interrupted Gambetta, with a loud
| laugh. The Count of Paris, like a polite host,
pretended not to see the point of the joke.
A STARTLING DISCOVERY was made the other
day by a lady living in the Rue de st. Charles,
| Paris. She had been absent from Paris for
| fortnight, and on returning to her apartment
| which had been untenanted during her sojourn
| in the country and carefully locked, she discov-
| cred in her bedroom the dead body of man.
| She Immediately rushed Reconstruction out of
| the room and ran down the stairs calling out for
help. The police having come to her assistance,
| the body was removed and examined by a doc
| tor, who stated that the deceased had succumb-
| ed to an apOplectic stroke The calling of the
| dead man made easily evident by the dis
! cOvery in his pocket of a burglars jimmy. q
pair of knucke busters and long sheath knife.
THE Persans have one never-faing subject
| of conversation; that subject is their health.
The pleasure of talking about the weather is
denied to them; for, as II months out of the
II fine in Persia, the subject does not present
| sufficient variety. But Persian to whatever
class OF society be may belong, is never tired of
| talking about his ailments real or supposed
| In his eyes all Ferringhis Europeans) are doc
| tors and the European doctor is the very best
| of all. For many years at Shiraz there lived
| an old Swede who had walked into Persia in
his youth. He, knew nothing of medicine
on his arrival; but, finding that the
natives constantly solicited his advice, he
| bought few medical books and
| literally acquired certain amount of knowl
! edge by carrying out the good old principle of
Fiat eXperimentuIn in corpOre Will" Happily
the Haldm Sahib also believed in the wis nedf-
catrix nature. = AS a rule his drugs were harm
less. Il have different colored liquids, said he
| and as long as there is bread and water to be
| had, am never at a loss for pill" The pills
were Toured for the common people and gilded
Sahib died He held the position of physician
to the forces Of the province, and was deservedly
respected by natives and Europeans.
GEN r. NICHOLSON, in the st. Louis Globe
| Democrat relates that in 1870 he was member
of the Yale College expedition which Prof O.
! c. Marsh took across the plains. One peculiar
| ity of the professor was that he was n very
| nervous and rather timid horseman. He was
continually talking to his horse. checking it and
| eXciaming whoa! whoa in loud tones
! After we had been out couple of months we
| fell in with some friendly Indians, one of whom
we hired as a guide The professor had q great
ambition to impress these children of the wild
! erneSs, and we knew that nothing would please
| him so much rs TO receive some name from them
| Indicative Of the character of his pursuit The
| Indians certainly We're impressed by him. but
| not in the way he expected and desired. One
| day member in our party came to the pro-
| fessor and said Professor Marsh. Indian Jim
| has given you name Marsh drew himself
up, and. with good deal of suppressed eager
ness, asked what il was, expecting to hear
| something like the White CHER or Big Medi-
| cine Bone Man. referring to his fossillferous
| pursuits. Jim rode with you yesterday and
noticed the way you managed your horse, and
! you are now known 10 the Indians as the 'Eeap
! Whoa Man The professor said not a word
! but ell through the day preserved u most mo-
! rose and gloomy aspect, and to this day there